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| Moscow, Russia |  Review on April 5, 2015: |
Ksenia1985
Rating:  | Review Topic: K1 Visa
I arrived to the Embassy at 9-20 (25 minutes prior to the time scheduled) and there were 5 people in line ahead of me. The weather was bad (wind+snow+rain). Luckily approximately in 1 min after my arrival the police officer took our passports and gave them back after checking something in the booth in another 2 minutes and we all went inside immediately. Everything took next to no time. Not a lot of people in any of the lines.
The actual time from my arrival to the immigrant visa waiting hall #5 till the interview took about 1,5 hours. During that time I gave the needed documents to the lady in window 23 and the rest of the time I was talking to people I have met the day before at the clinic for the medical. There were 3 of us ladies with K-1 and i was the first one called for the interview, I think cuz I arrived first.
When I entered the interview room there was a very nice rather young man. We started talking in Russian and he gave back my originals: divorce certificate and birth certificate. He also asked if I read the oath and asked to raise the right hand to swear and he took my left hand finger prints as my "signature" under that oath. Right after that he started talking about the pamphlet they asked me to read before the interview about domestic violence and abuse and my rights inside the USA if this happens to me.
After that he asked the name of my fiance and what language we use to communicate. I said English and he gladly said: well lets continue in English then.
He asked the following: describe how your relationships started and how they evolved, when did my fiance propose, when are we planning to get married, what I was doing while visiting on my tourist visas(mainly trying to understand if I violated and worked or studied), about my work(and he even started talking off topic about travel companies bankruptcies), about my previous marriage and how it ended and of course criminal history of my fiance (DUI).
Many times he was looking straight at me while typing in his computer, it was weird, but I was amazed with that skill.
The visa officer was very nice, friendly, extremely polite and the talk was very relaxed and with a lot of smiles. He never tried to be hostile or trying to accuse me or anything bad really, I felt like he was on my side and he wanted to hear the proof to the documents we submitted and that he already studied and he was willing to approve.
I had a huge heap of additional proof, but he never asked me about anything. Better to be over prepared than have something missing.
He said my visa was approved and that they will send it to me in a week or so.
I might be mistaken but it felt like the interview lasted 15-20 minutes mainly cuz it was like a conversation, we were talking and my answers were pretty detailed.
Great experience at this Embassy!
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